I have two other Citizen watches and this one is a nice addition. Looks elegant even as a dress watch. I only wish it had eliminated hands and dial especially at this price point.
Almost feel like I should be using soft white gloves to handle this watch. Third Citizen I've had, and this one is almost too nice.
Needs more lume on the hands, otherwise very nice.
Watch is artistically coherent. It is an abstration of a moon crater: flat bevel turning at an angle with marks oriented down sloping towards dial, carbon-black color of space, the dial itself with pattern resembling meteorite or moon surface, subdials as various smaller impact sites in a crater. Dial scheme is designed to matches the pattern on bracelet middle-links, links made from reconstituted titanium. I have Omegas including moonwatch, Rolex, A Lange. They are considered my jewelry watches. But this line of watch embodies a different philosophy. It is less symbol of intentional antiquated design or statement of leisure, but more a modern interpretation of time in a sophisticated, ever punctual, and increasingly connected cosmopolitan world. Always in sync with official time, anywhere, its embodies essense of what time means to any businessman in a culture where train punctuality is measured in seconds. It provides a sense of stability and respite: here this ticking on my wrist, it is constant, as a constant of the universe, it oes not varies by seconds from day to day --it is accurate, for all time, and anchors and quantifies time concretely in an increasingly confusing world. In terms of value, it strikes all the essential facets. In addition to being made of Super titanium which already is light but tough, the Hakuto-R is coated specifically with DLC version of Duratect, almost 1500 on Vick scale of hardness. World time. Dual time. Date. Day. UTC. Perpeptual Calendar. Chronometer mode. Plus a quantitatively extremely accurate light level indicator that, on testing, correctly compares intensity of different sun lamps across distances. Our cell phone listens to cell tower on the ground, and cell tower listens to satellite. This watch bypasses towers and itself *directly* listens to satellite, even on a air plane, as long its dial can face unobstructed sky. And since it is Eco Drive, all it fits behind a dial that uses sunlight to charge. There is an impressive amount of tech and modern human inguinity dedicated to the art of Time, its passage, measurement, display.